Catherine Wei, MD, has been appointed an Instructor of Clinical Medicine (Hematology) and cares for patients in need of hematologic treatment and care. She received her Medical Degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed her residency and fellowship at Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson with a fellow elective in Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapies at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
During her fellowship training, Dr. Wei received the Melvyn H. Motolinsky Hematology Research Foundation Award, established to support research into leukemia and other blood-related diseases. She also received the very competitive Gallo Award for Outstanding Cancer Research in 2015 from the Cancer Institute of New Jersey. Dr. Wei’s current research is focused on Burkitt Lymphoma, as well as improved use of bronchoscopy and pathological analysis for bone marrow transplant patients.
Kathleen Fenn, MD, has joined Smilow Cancer Hospital as an Instructor of Clinical Medicine (Medical Oncology) following the completion of her Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Fenn received her Medical Degree from Yale School of Medicine, and completed her internship and residency at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Dr. Fenn is a member of the T32 Cancer Biology Training Program (T32-CA009503) that seeks to identify and recruit individuals with outstanding potential and prepare them for highly productive careers in cancer research. She recently presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium on the tumor immune microenvironment in early stage HR-positive/HER2-positive breast cancer.
Amy Gates, MD, joins Smilow Cancer Hospital as an Instructor of Clinical Medicine (Hematology) and cares for patients from Smilow Cancer Hospital Care Centers in Trumbull and Fairfield receiving inpatient hematology and oncology care at Bridgeport Hospital. Dr. Gates received her Medical Degree from Harvard Medical School and completed her residency and fellowship at UC San Francisco.
Following fellowship, Dr. Gates joined UCSF as a Clinical Instructor and focused her clinical research on patients with AIDS-related malignancies. She later practiced as a general oncologist at Kaiser Permanente in San Rafael, CA before taking time off from oncology practice to raise her children.